Question follow-through · 82077
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to appoint an independent commissioner who would be responsible for outstanding losses from the Equitable Life scandal.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to appoint an independent commissioner who would be responsible for outstanding losses from the Equitable Life scandal.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
Under plans put in place by the Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition Government, the Equitable Life Payment Scheme was fully wound down and closed in 2016. The only remaining part of the Payment Scheme in operation is the annual payments made to el...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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